Social media has created new spaces for groups between the public and private.

Before social media, most communication was either mainly private and one-to-one (e.g. letters or the telephone), or public broadcasting (e.g. radio, TV, newspapers). By contrast, social media is mainly devoted to groups, and allows us to scale different sizes of audience and degrees of privacy.

In this film we can see how Instagram became a key site of community solidarity after an earthquake; it became a place where people tried to convey their experience of disaster and marginalisation to a larger audience.